On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:28:50 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> first of all you have to remember that: > > # usermod -G adm myuser > > .. wipes out all your other groups .. so you have to try and figure > out what groups you were in (or restore from a backup) .. and then > issue a: > > # usermod -G adm,grp1,grp2,grp3 myuser > > .. don't leave out the commas between the groups..! > > then every time you want to actually view the logs you have to issue > a: > > $ newgrp adm Why not simply use 'adduser myuser newgroup'? > I use cdrecord. > > But the problem is that my burner is defined like so: > > crw------- 1 root root 21, 0 2002-08-29 18:00:48.-0400 /dev/sg0 > > So only root has access to it. Mind you I could chown it over to my > user .. or change the group to cdrom and give it group rw > permissions. The trouble about this approach that all these little > changes add up and I tend to forget these things. Some way or other > I suspect this'd come back and bite me when I least expect it. And > then with this strategy I'd still have to newgrp to the cdrom group > before I could do anything, right..? AFAIK cdrecord can be installed setuid (dpkg-reconfigure ...). Then add yourself to the cdrom group. While this is not the best solution it's still better than burning cdroms as root. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]